Why would anyone want to label skull specimens as to whether or not they have chins? See this post, and be sure to read MELewis‘s comment.

French notes

l’accord inter-annotateur : inter-annotator agreement. See a nice set of slides on the topic, in French, here.

zyeuter : to scrutinize. It seems like a soutenu word, but given the book where I ran across it, I would expect it to be familier. (Comment from native speaker Phil dAnge: zyeuter is definitively not “soutenu”but completely “familier, limite argot ”)

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Bravo, belle démonstration de maîtrise du français . Your French is better than my English . Two notes : the choice of “cru”(l’accord cru) is not the best in this situation . Better to write “l’accord attendu”, as we don’t have a single word for expected, or “l’accord prévu” if the person was nearly sure of the result by advance .
And zyeuter is definitively not “soutenu”but completely “familier, limite argot ” .

There are many . Soutenu : “regarder” of course, then “examiner”and “scruter”, these two imply more attention, “fixer”,this one implies no other movement, “mirer”, this one is older, “contempler”, like gaze at. Familier : “mater” (very common), “reluquer”, “lorgner”, “bigler”,”guigner” (older but still used), “viser” (yes colloquially it means simply regarder). Now there are also the multiple classical slangs of different social backgrounds – and there are several – plus nowadays the “slangs”from the brainless teens influenced by American money makers or immigration suburbs . I don’t know their slangs, each time I see one I shoot before he can open his annoying mouth .
Note : pardon me I answered your question about “raw agreement” in a wrong place. I hope you can get it nevertheless . Oh, sometimes a “war agreement” can be a “raw agreement” with another meaning isn’t it ?

Yes, pardon me I speak with you as I’d do with a French mate . You’re right, it means “borderline slang, it is a rather modern colloquial way of speaking . You’ll hear it often nowadays : ” Le mec était vraiment en colère, limite agressif tu vois …”, this sort of things .

Thanks! What I was looking for is what you would call in English “raw agreement,” i.e. the agreement before it’s been adjusted—in this formula, the “observed agreement,” calculated as 4/5 in the example. What’s the word for “raw” in this context?

I had to think . There are several possibilities, of course depending on more subtle notions in the speaker’s mind . For seen before adjustment there is a very decent term, “estimé” estimated but this one implies a minimum of thinking . For an immediate instinctive estimation there is the very common phrase ” à première vue”, with its very “familier” equivalent “à la louche”.
In your sentence I would say “…que l’accord apparent OR l’accord supposé à première vue”.